Re: [Matplotlib-users] dashes and dpi?

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Mark Bakker apparently wrote:
>> you claim that 1pt = 1/72 inch.  Is that always the case?  
>> And why? How does mpl figure that out

I wrote this to help clarify some of these issues:

http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/AdjustingImageSize


> By the way, I've discovered that browser scaling
> of PNGs does not work very well (fuzzy fonts),

right, scaling rasters is never optimum.

> so
> setting both figsize and dpi correctly proves
> rather important.

exactly.

>  In contrast to best practice
> for loading speed, you should not set the size
> of your IMG element.

you can set it, but make sure it matches the actual image size. That 
will get you the rendering speed, with no quality penalty.

-Chris


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